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C# memcpy equivalent
What is the equivalent of the memcpy function in c#?
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2Could you please provide a bit more context. What are you trying to do? – Brian Rasmussen Jun 08 '10 at 10:27
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4Any details what you try to do. Because the approach will vary based on that. – Incognito Jun 08 '10 at 10:31
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Your question lacks way to much information to be answered. Since you're talking about memcpy I assume you want to copy using Pointers? But then there are multiple type of pointers in c#. So could you please elaborate? – Phyx Jun 08 '10 at 10:42
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Actually I have two applications, first in c# and 2nd in c++, both the applications are communicating with each other, for the encoding, I use memcpy function, which I have to decode in c# application. – Siddiqui Jun 08 '10 at 10:43
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Buffer.BlockCopy is close, but limited to arrays. I agree it depends what you're trying to do.
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As already said it depends what you are trying to do... So you can consider one of these... check the links:
There may be other possible options based on your needs...
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For copying (byte) arrays, you can use the Array.Copy() method, but that's probably not what you want:
byte[] array1 = new byte[10] { 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 };
byte[] array2 = new byte[10];
Array.Copy(array1,array2,10);
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Or, alternatively, `Buffer.BlockCopy`. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.buffer.blockcopy.aspx – LukeH Jun 08 '10 at 10:38
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There is none. C# protects the actual memory behind several layers of abstraction. For some purposes, the IClonable interface may be of some help though.
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You can use unsafe and pointers. But your particular case would say a bit more about what direction you should head.
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